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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG089 : Arthraxon lanceolatus (Roxb.) Hochst.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Arthraxon P.Beauv. - carpetgrass
Species : Arthraxon lanceolatus Hochst
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Arthraxon echinatus (Nees) Hochst.
Andropogon echinatus (Nees) B.Heyne ex Steud.
Andropogon echinatus Edgew. (Unresolved)
Arthraxon echinatus (Nees) K. Heyne ex Kuntze
Arthraxon lanceolatus var. echinatus (Nees) Hack.
Arthraxon spathaceus Hook.f.
Batratherum echinatum Nees.
Description : Culms to 60 cm high, nodes glabrous or hairy. Leaves 1.5-5 x 0.2-1.2 cm, ovate-lanceolate, amplexicaule at base, strongly ciliate along margins; sheath rounded, ciliate along one margin, ligule a fimbriate membrane. Racemes few together, 3-6 cm long. Sessile spikelets 5-6 mm long, callus hairy; lower glume 5-6 x 1 mm, lanceolate, acute, 5-7 nerved, 2-keeled, spinulose, margins infolded; upper glume to 5 x 1.5 mm, boat shaped; first lemma hyaline; upper lemma awned; awn geniculate; stigmas 2 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets developed with one barren and one male florets.
 
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Reference : ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 PMID :